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During the weekend, even Ars takes an occasional break from reviewing new self-publishing options or researching all the cyber tools the feds use to catch culprits. Weekend Ar(t)s is a chance to share what we're watching/listening/reading or otherwise consuming this week. ABOBO SMASH! "Retro" is the dominant genre. It...

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Not every teenager sits around, texting endlessly and at all the wrong times, causing their parents to worry about a possible addiction to technology. Some of them give TED talks in their spare time. How will we talk about feminism? What does it mean to "fail," and why shouldn't we...

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Aims to make it easier for sofa-bound YouTube viewers to find new channels to watchGoogle is releasing an updated version of its YouTube app for Google TV, which the company says will make it easier for viewers to find videos and channels to watch on their big-screen TVs.The app is...

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Google Docs can now spell check threw through the Web. Software Engineer Yew Jin Lim took to the official Google Docs blog this afternoon to explain how the Internet is helping Google Docs get smarter. The ambiguous and ever-adapting Googlebot is able to crawl cyberspace and adapt to words. The resulting action enables Google...

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Those wacky guys over at PBS’s Idea Channel. The show, which focuses on the convergence of tech, art and pop culture, recently did a segment on how Microsoft’s Kinect has the potential to create amazing digital art. Hosted by Mike Rugnetta and produced by Kornhaber Brown, the piece focuses on...

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Today, the future is depicted in pop culture as a dystopian nightmare of zombies, killer robots and reality TV shows where children fight to the death. It was not always so. In the early 20th century, the future was regarded with optimism and hope. The Bohn Aluminum & Brass...

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So, this weekend I attended PAX East, and there was a ton of good stuff to see. One of my favorite things was definitely Saint’s Row IV and if you thought that the last entry was insane then the bar just got set higher. They started off by showing...

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The best feature of the increasingly unpopular Google+ network is the multi-person video chat room called Google+ Hangouts. Google announced today it is releasing its API out of preview so developers can have more fun with Hangouts, making the them capable of running social apps. Some of these starter...

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Ken, Matt, Jonathan and special guest Chris Gore (from Attack of the Show and Film Threat) talk about movies, parenting in the digital age, and more. Enjoy! GeekDad.com is the parenting blog at Wired.com, edited by Ken Denmead, Matt Blum, Jonathan Liu, Z and Chris Anderson. It is a...

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Just when the tech-world is seemingly about to explode with apps—apps for Android, apps for iPhone, apps for set-top boxes, apps for computers, apps for Facebook—Google adds to the bubbling pot with Google+ Hangout apps. Google Product Manager Amit Fulay announced on Google+ today the first implementation of apps...

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William Shatner and Taiwanese singer Lin Yu Chun performed a duet of Bonnie Tyler’s “Total Eclipse of the Heart” on last night’s episode of Lopez Tonight. Consequently, the world of viral Internet memes promptly folded itself into one big tesseracted fourth dimension where we’re all slaves to cats wielding...

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One of Mr. Wu's designs. (uproxx.com) We all know tech is cool now, but did you know hacking circles like Anonymous are actually sartorial tastemakers? Apparently neither did designer Adrian Wu, whose models in his Toronto fashion show sported Guy Fawkes masks, much to the confusion of show attendees. According...

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When Dick Costolo became Twitter’s third CEO in the fall of 2010, the mainstream press wasn’t quite sure what to make of it. That wasn’t too surprising. While he’d successfully sold Feedburner to Google years earlier, he was hardly a household name, even in tech circles. But interestingly enough, Valley...

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Last year, Steve Hansen bought Spin magazine, killed the print edition, and kept the website. Now he’s singing the same song with a new title: Hansen’s SpinMedia is buying Vibe, the 20-year-old hip-hop and R&B magazine, from a consortium led by Intermedia and Ron Burkle’s Yucaipa Companies. It plans on...

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The DeLorean has held a special place in the lexicon of pop culture since its appearance in the Back To The Future series, but its real history is even more nuts. Engineer John DeLorean, who produced lovely and iconic designs outside of cars, also tried to save his motor company...

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kottke.org: Turn your Twitter stream into your friends' linkblog: jkottke: A few weeks ago, Twitter added an option to search the tweets of only the people you follow. This is useful for several different reasons (try searching for [recent pop culture key phrase] to see what I mean) but for...

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StyleCaster, a fashion blog and community launched in 2009, has just undergone a major redesign, creating a user-generated, editorial hybrid with strong Pinterest influences. The redesign places StyleCaster in a new position, with the goal of surfacing the best of fashion, style and beauty through photos, news and products. The startup already has massive...

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Stephan Pastis Like many of society’s pop culture fixtures, the comic strip is a product of the last century’s dominant medium for information and entertainment, the daily newspaper. But as with most everything associated with the newspaper business, the comic strip finds itself struggling against the harsh reality of ever smaller...

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Life in Five Seconds condenses stories of historical events, famous people, and iconic landmarks into simple wordless pictographs. Produced by design studio H-57, Life's take on well-known subjects is often funny, sometimes enlightening, and always a fun time-waster — even when you don't find a particular subject interesting, the...

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Google search has come a long way from the plain old list of ten results — there's a full calculator with graphing functions, flight search, movie showtimes, and currency conversion just to name a few — but now the search engine is getting a bit more pop culture functionality....

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Here’s a roundup of this week’s news about paywalls. Houston Chronicle The Houston Chronicle is adopting a new payment model for digital content: Its new HTML5 site, HoustonChronicle.com, requires a subscription, while a separate site, Chron.com, remains free. The Boston Globe enacted a similar model last September. John T. O’Loughlin, president...

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It's a tired cliche that all gamers are male, and it's time manufacturers woke up to the fact that women want to see female characters they can relate toAfter pop culture critic Anita Sarkeesian attended the Xbox One press conference in LA's E3 trade event, she spoke out on Twitter....

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On September 30th, 2015, the FAA is scheduled to complete its Congressional mandate to authorize unmanned aerial vehicles for commercial use in US airspace — a somewhat ominous milestone next to its estimation that by the end of the decade, American skies will be home to around 30,000 remote...

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Ah, to review the iPhone 5 — what a blessing, and what a curse. It's actually funny to think that there was a time not that long ago that the iPhone wasn't even a thing, let alone an iconic part of pop culture. A time when an Apple-made phone...

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Not to load you up on Google news today or anything, but in addition to the launch of Google’s new Activity Reports this morning, the company is also announcing the arrival of some of its first fully featured apps for Google+ Hangouts. For the most part, the starter set of...